Twentieth-Century American Architecture - by Carter Wiseman (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: History
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: General
Author: Carter Wiseman
Language: English

About the Book

In an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past 100 years, Wiseman offers a survey that is "accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments" ("New York Times"). 250 illustrations.

Book Synopsis

Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is as good . . . as anyone is likely to write . . . accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments(New York Times), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers--the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts by money, theory, and abstraction; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community are just some of the issues addressed in this highly praised work. Originally published in hardcover under the title Shaping a Nation.